Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [adv] before it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the crew of a USAF storm-tracking WC-130 Hercules which penetrated the eye of the hurricane just before it struck Homestead , peak wind speed was 170 knots and pressure dropped to 993 millibars . |
| 2 | We pioneered the technique well before it became used on so large a scale by giants like American Express and Reader 's Digest . |
| 3 | Buzz was out of the car almost before it rolled to a halt on the gravel forecourt . |
| 4 | When I read in my newspaper that Spurn Head could well tumble into the sea at any moment , given a sufficiently powerful gale , I felt I must visit the place quickly before it did so , before great waves breached its narrowness and destroyed it — yet again . |
| 5 | G&G spent a good part of a decade — the Seventies — getting drunk , the memory of which still prompts a wistful smile from Gilbert , and they were habitués of the Blitz even before it became the early-Eighties club . |
| 6 | He had wondered how the KGB would react to the Reznichenko Memorandum ; now he saw they must have been analysing the pattern long before it had occurred to him . |
| 7 | Turn left off the road just before it reaches the next beck . |
| 8 | Then he looked up at the sky , and saw the plane just before it went behind a cloud on its way to Port au Prince airport . |
| 9 | A rattling commotion alerted me to the patrol well before it reached the alley . |
| 10 | He saw Richmann 's clubbing motion with the gun almost before it happened , and a voice from the past called for him to run . |
| 11 | Sue fell in love with the house long before it came on the market . |